The house infinite full, but the prologue most silly, and the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his plays have, any one of which alone would be held... Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the ... - Página 65de Samuel Pepys - 1855Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| James Boswell - 1786 - 552 páginas
...them. At first he praises them highly, but of one of the later ones — Tryphon — he writes : — ' The play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost...plot, as every one of his plays have, any one of which would be held admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another.' Pepys's... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1828 - 486 páginas
...mouths and went thither; where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the 1 8d. place above stairs, where we could not hear well....admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another ; and this, I perceive, is the sense of every body else as well as myself,... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 510 páginas
...mouths, and went thither, where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the I8d. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well....admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another ; and this, I perceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself,... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 530 páginas
...the I8d. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well. The house infinite 1 Colonel Middleton. full, but the prologue most silly, and the play, though...admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another ; and this, I perceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself,... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1877 - 514 páginas
...Middleton. 2 This tragedy, taken from the first book of Maccabees, was performed with great success. well. The house infinite full, but the prologue most...admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another ; and this, I perceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself,... | |
| Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 720 páginas
...we venture to give in full the following extract from Pepys. Speaking of this piece, he says : — " The house infinite full, but the prologue most silly,...every one of his plays have, any one of which alone could be held admirable, •whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1884 - 384 páginas
...mouths, and went thither, where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the 18</. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well....admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another ; and this, I perceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself,... | |
| Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 610 páginas
...we venture to give in full the following extract from Pepys. Speaking of this piece, he says : — " The house infinite full, but the prologue most silly,...every one of his plays have, any one of which alone could be held admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and... | |
| Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright - 1896 - 202 páginas
...half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the 18^. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well, but the house infinite full, but the prologue most silly,...admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and this, I perceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself,... | |
| John Dryden - 1900 - 420 páginas
...half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the i8d. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well, but the house infinite full, but the prologue most silly,...admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another ; and this, I perceive, is the sense of everybody else, as well as myself,... | |
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